Quotes From "Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches Of My Literary Life & Opinions" By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving. Samuel Taylor Coleridge